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• Book review: Bush Toys, Aboriginal Children at Play, by Claudia Haagen

  
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  A little while ago I posted about my curiosity as to whether or not there was a concept of ‘toys’ in nomadic lifestyles so I was very pleased yesterday when I stumbled across a whole book devoted to the topic.  The Bayside Library Service at Sandringham deserves to be congratulated because it’s the only ...
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• Weekly Diigo Posts (weekly)

  
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  The CRAPpy Song (aka, the C.R.A.P. Test Song) – YouTube CRAPpy Song for teaching credibility by Dr. Chad Bauman (fun w/ nuance tweak for discussion) http://t.co/vkTVJQ0wA7 #tlchat #tlelem #edchat tags: tlchat tlelem edchat twitter ...
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• School’s Out for Summer- Now What?

  
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  For those of us who are not on a Year Round curriculum, school is out, or close to it.. for the Summer, and I’ve heard so many people asking “What now?” Besides the typical hanging out at the beach, pool, playing outside, etc… We want ideas to keep our kids’ brains from losing everything they learned over ...
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• An end to teacher talk – Reflection time

  
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  HMI are in tomorrow and Year 9 are (fingers crossed) handing in an assignment. Since it’s now forbidden for teachers to speak during lessons I have devised the following format for the start of the lesson:
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• Book Review: Alfie’s Search for Destiny, by David Hardy

  
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  Alfie’s Search for Destiny  is another title from Australia’s first Indigenous Australian publisher, Magabala Books.  It’s a sweet little rhyming story that features a theme common in picture books for small children keen to explore their world but are not quite ready for it -  about a little boy who leaves ...
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• The Self-Curiosity Memoir

  
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  Debra Gwartney, author of  Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love , has a valuable blog post up this week looking at “A Few Memoir Pitfalls.”  Good reading to remind ourselves, and particularly useful for those of us who teach: Here’s an excerpt.   The full essay can ...
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• Weekly Diigo Posts (weekly)

  
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  Predictions About the New SAT Test | The College Solution tags: sat test college An Annotated Prologue: Google Docs Meets Romeo and Juliet « Used Books in Class Great intro activity! tags: ...
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• Growing trend of Hollywood’s ‘artistic surrender’ to please China

  
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  In Hollywood, the screenwriter William Goldman once observed, “nobody knows anything”. Now, however, everybody knows at least one thing: whatever you do, be nice to China. If your movie features a Chinese villain, change his nationality. If your plot omits a scene in China, insert one – preferably with gleaming ...
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• Testing times: which times tables do kids find the hardest?

  
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  We can all remember learning our times tables – even if we cant remember the sums themselves. But which one do children find the hardest? And how do boys and girls compare? • Get the data Its maybe the stereotypical image of the primary school classroom: rows of children, chanting in unsion: "One times two is ...
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• “Here’s Looking at You, Writer!”

  
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  A guest post, in black and white, from Rebecca Lawton: I’ve long believed that many lines from the Casablanca screenplay (penned by Epstein, Epstein, and Koch) may come in handy to writers as comeback statements. Because I’ve seen the movie dozens of times, all within the last five years, I’m quite familiar ...
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• Teaching Introduction to Religion: Or How Tupac and Mary Douglas Became Best Friends

  
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  By: Cara L. Burnidge This past year I had the pleasure of teaching an Introduction to Religion course for the first time at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. As a general education course that fulfills both a multicultural and writing-intensive requirement, this class draws in a variety of students ...
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• On “The Laws of Physics”

  
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  David J. Lawrence discusses the origins of his essay  The Laws of Physics and Good Common Sense : A few weeks after the accident, my son’s long-term prognosis good, a colleague stopped by my office. “Well, you’ve got yourself some material.” On some level, I suppose, I knew as much, though I didn’t ...
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• Weekly Diigo Posts (weekly)

  
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  Explore – People who feel they deserve success are among… The science of why big egos bomb – Australian study confirms that entitlement is the enemy of excellence http://t.co/GGEdbB77dk tags: twitter Crafting Digital Writing by Troy Hicks – ...
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• Journaling On, but why?

  
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  Recently I received news of three new journals with laudable goals: one is Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies , an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal; the second is The Sociology of Islam Journal , which will be published by Brill on a subscription basis. The third is ...
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• Religion and Oral History

  
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  BY MICHAEL PASQUIER I’m not a professional oral historian. However, I use oral histories in the classroom to introduce students to the intersection of memory and history in the United States. Based on my limited but growing experience, this is no easy task . It’s one thing to recognize the educational ...
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• Unbelievable! Casting Truth as Fiction

  
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  Cheryl Diane Kidder explores the difficulty of turning true events into fiction, and how some truths, like those in her recent  Brevity  essay “Cut,”   want to be told in the nonfiction form: Cheryl Diane Kidder The hardest thing about writing “Cut” was getting it into a form that both got the ...
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• Imagining Emily

  
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  Sheryl St. Germain discusses the origins of her essay Interviewing Emily Dickinson   and the “truth” of an imagined moment: Sheryl St. Germain Because I’ve been doing historical research for another writing project, which involves trying to recover a particular woman’s voice from 16th century ...
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• On Writing with a Shaky Hand

  
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  Sarah Wells Sarah Wells discusses the roots of her essay “Field Guide to Resisting Temptation ,” found in the latest issue of Brevity : I wrote this essay after it occurred to me for the first time that I could be the one to screw up my marriage.  Even though my husband and I had talked about temptation ...
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• Writing is a Time Machine: Brian Doyle

  
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  Brian Doyle Brian Doyle discusses the genesis of his essay, “Sachiel the Tailor,” found in the May 2013 issue of Brevity : And where did Sachiel come from, you ask? I kid you not, from a hole in my excellent ancient beloved perfectly worn green cotton shirt, which yawned and grinned and gaped at me one ...
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• Weekly Diigo Posts (weekly)

  
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  Start-Up Hopes to Help Freelance Writers Get Paid – NYTimes.com A site that aims to help freelance writers get paid http://t.co/B8KC1puznO tags: twitter Hamlet Mash Up (2013) – YouTube Hamlet told through clips and allusions ...
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